Burial-casket



(No Model.)

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OSCAR D. BYERS, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

BUVRIAL-CASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,602, dated December 14, 1897.

Application filed June 15, 1896.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LOSQAR D. BYERS, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Burial-Caskets, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to afford more convenient access to the interior of the casket when desired and at the same time preserve the usual ornamental finish thereof; and to that end the invention consists, essentially, in the combination, with a burial-casket, of a cove divided longitudinally into sections disposed one upon the top of the other and hinged together at the outer edge of their joint, and means sustaining the upper section in an upwardly-projecting and outwardly sloping or inclined position upon the lower seo tion retained in its normal position upon the casket, as hereinafter more fully described,

and set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a burial-casket embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section of the same, and Fig. 3 isastill further enlarged transverse sectional view illustrating my invention.

B represents the body of the casket, which may be of any usual or suitable shape.

0 denotes the so-called cove, which is detaohably mounted on the body B and provided with suitable fastenin gs f for retaining the cove'in place.

D is the lid, which in this case is divided longitudinally and hinged to the top of the cove. The exterior of the top or main portion a of the cove is ogee-shaped and that of the base 17 is convexed. This cove I divide longitudinally in a horizontal plane at the junction of the aforesaid main portion and base, as'sho'wn at c. The cove is thus composed of two sections a and 12, disposed normally one upon the top of the other. These two sections-I hinge together at the outer edge of their joint, as shown at d, so as to allow the upper section a to be swung out from Serial No. 595,662. (No model.)

the lower section b and cause the upper section to be supported by the convex portion of the ogee resting upon the convex exterior of the base 19, which'is seated upon the body B, as illustrated more clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The cove is placed in said position when the corpse is to be exposed to view, and inasmuch as the inner side of the cove is finished or covered with the same trimmings or lining as the interior of the casket the opened casket with the cove turned outward, as aforesaid, presents the appearance of having a larger and more ornamental outwardlyflaring interior, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, while the bottom section or base I) of the cove is retained in its normal position upon the casket, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings.

The sections of the divided lid D are suspended from the top sections a of the cove when the casket is opened, as aforesaid. The outward leaning of said top section of the cove carries the suspended lid-section in a neat position and at a safe and convenient distance from the side of the casket.

Although I have shown my invention as applied to only a portion of the casket, it is obviousthat the cove may be divided through out its entire length and the lid may be divided correspondingly and hinged to the cove, as aforesaid.

I do not claim, broadly, the combination, with a casket-body, of a cove-molding divided longitudinally and having the sections thereof hinged together at their outer edges and the lid supported on the upper section of said molding.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The combination with the casket-body, of a cove divided longitudinally into sections disposed one upon the other and hinged together at the outer edge of their joint,'and means sustaining the top section in an upwardly-projecting and outward ly-sloping position upon the bottom section resting in its normal position upon the casket-body, and

the cove in its closed position, as set forth.

2. The combination, withaoasket-body, of top of said cove, substantially as set forth a cove mounted detaohably on said body and and shown. 10 having its main portion ogee-shaped and the In testimony whereof I have hereunto exterior of its base oonvexed, said cove being signed my name this 4th day of June, 1896.

divided longitudinally in a horizontal plane OSCAR D. BYERS. [L. 3.] at the junction of the main portion and base Vitnesses: and the sections hinged together at the outer J. J. LAASS,

edge of the joint, and the lid hinged to the M. A. LEYDEN. 

